Zongman: Evolution Paradise

"Should I run?" Makoto Ito wondered, a little conflicted, as he took the Dragon Ball and the relic.

There is only one Servant here, and he will soon be a combination of Servant and Master.

Just summon the Heroic Spirit and then run away!

After receiving the Dragon Ball and the relic, Makoto Ito looked up and met Steve's gaze. His heart skipped a beat, but his cowardice prevailed, and he didn't dare to resist.

"I'm not going to resist anymore. Just give me the weakest Heroic Spirit, so weak that he'll die right away."

With this in mind, Makoto Ito obeyed the order and began summoning the Heroic Spirit.

As the heroic spirits were summoned, a chill descended, and snowflakes fell from the sky above Ryudong Temple, forming a layer of black ice against the night sky.

The Berserker class has been released.

His body was encased in sturdy armor, revealing only his scarlet eyes. A calm exterior concealed an absolute madness, and the sword in his hand emanated a chilling aura.

Chapter 166 When the Materialized Split Meets C-Mom

"If you two are bored, come over and help me think of a more convenient way to use Command Seals."

Jolyne noticed that the air was a bit stuffy. The two Heroic Spirits just sat on the edge of the bed, with Medea and Medusa not showing any intention of communicating with each other.

"Use the ones that significantly boost combat power now, and save the ones with special effects for when they can deal with enemies that might appear within their range."

"Well, Master has a five-stroke Command Seal, doesn't he?"

Medea said succinctly.

By taking away two Command Seals from Nobuyuki Sugo, Jolyne now has five Command Seals, giving her an extra two compared to ordinary players, and thus some room to squander them.

Command Seals have four effects, which are as follows:

Effect 1: Replenishes a large amount of mana to the Servant in one go.

Effect 2: Forces the follower to complete an instruction.

Effect 3: Unlock one of your equipment items.

Effect 4: Unlock one of your own skills and transfer it to a Servant.

Three-stroke Command Seals are something ordinary players dare not waste carelessly, since the number of effects is greater than the number of Command Seals themselves.

Effect 3 unlocks certain special equipment and items, which is probably mainly to protect the player. After all, in the face of some powerful heroes, a level 3 player with no equipment is basically a deadly existence. Some life-saving items can always give them a chance to survive.

As for items that can turn the tide of battle, there's probably no need to consider that. These players are only level 3, and even if they tried to draw for extra random equipment and items, they would only have drawn three times after completing all the draws.

New players in gacha games usually get a gold item in ten consecutive draws. These guys can't possibly have some kind of super lucky charm that will bring a miracle in a single draw, right?

The effect 4, which unlocks skills and transfers them to Servants, is also quite important.

The skills the player uses may not be very strong, but the Heroic Spirits are strong enough!

Don't you see how different the Great Fireball Technique of a Genin is from that of Madara Uchiha?

If Hercules could learn Sett's Deliberate Punch and Iskandar could learn the Strategist's Cloud Formation, their strength would probably increase significantly.

Effect 1, which provides a large amount of magic power at once, is a reserved option for players who do not have powerful equipment or items, nor do they have suitable Heroic Spirit skills.

Even if you can't do anything else, at least you can use Command Seals to make a Heroic Spirit unleash a Noble Phantasm at full power.

As for effect 2, issuing a mandatory command to a Servant seems insignificant, something a Master would only do if they couldn't control the Servant, but it actually has some special uses.

This command can not only control disobedient Heroic Spirits, but also be used to order them to do things they would not normally be able to do.

For example, if the Servant is not nearby and the enemy player has already reached you, you can use a Command Seal to forcibly command the Servant to return to your side.

The command "Return to your master immediately" is something a Heroic Spirit cannot normally do, but with the effect of Command Seals, a Heroic Spirit can fulfill this command from its Master and immediately appear beside its Master.

Controlling Heroic Spirits is useless against Jolyne, but the other three abilities are indeed very useful.

Jolyne has so many powerful equipment, items, and skills, and there are quite a few that can be paired with Medea and Medusa, making it a bit of a dilemma.

Breath of the Wind and Destruction Kill were eliminated first. Medea is a mage and doesn't use melee combat, while Medusa uses a whip blade. Her mythical skills don't require her to use other sword techniques from Demon Slayer.

Next to be eliminated are Transparency and Taoist Heavenly Eye. The former two heroic spirits have a spiritual state that can be used for invisibility, while the latter Medea has magic that can replace the effect of that state. Medusa also has the Petrifying Eye, and her own combat awareness and perception are also top-notch. Even if she wears an eye patch every day, it does not hinder her life.

Aside from these four, only four skills remain: Golden Light Spell, Materialization Split, Black Flash, and God's Hand.

Facing the two Heroic Spirits, Jolyne explained the uses of these four skills to them in detail.

"……That's it."

Jolyne took out a few bottles of chilled beer from the workshop and distributed them to them. "Do you have any objections?"

"Aside from Black Flash and God's Hand, the other two are very useful to me."

Medea answered, glancing at the mild beer in her hand with some surprise, then at Jolyne, before pulling the tab and continuing to explain, "Although Black Flash and God's Hand are very powerful, exposing oneself to the enemy is not something a magician should do."

"Furthermore, my physical body is very fragile. The Golden Light Spell can protect me. If the Materialization Split can really create multiple versions of myself, then I can set up some special magic arrays in Fuyuki City..."

Medea didn't really believe in such a perfect splitting ability, transforming her emotions into perfect clones; it sounded like the method of severing the three corpses passed down by Chinese heroic spirits.

"I have no objections. All four skills seem to suit me well."

Medusa pulled the tab and smelled it, discovering that her beer was stronger than Medea's.

"In that case, let's try using a Command Spell to see how it works."

Jolyne opened his panel, stretched out his left hand, and prepared to try it out immediately. He also wanted to know what effect his skills would have on Servants, especially since he had two Servants, and the situation might be different from that of ordinary players.

Medea had already moved closer, eager to see for herself what was so special about the players and paradise that Jolyne had mentioned.

"I will use a Command Spell to unlock one of my abilities - Materialized Split."

Jolyne looked at the player panel. As the Command Seals transformed into magical energy and surged in the room, the originally dull skill - Materialization Split - also shone brightly as if a stone were cracking.

An inexplicable aura appeared, and Jolyne chose Medea as the object to be adapted to the materialized split.

As the surging magic dissipated, Medusa, wearing an eye patch, discovered a special presence in the room that originally housed the three of them, located right between Medea and Jolyne.

A sweet, childlike voice came from inside the room, asking, "Are you my master?"

Chapter 167 C Mom, R Sister and C Son

[Important: Medea Lily is an adult!]

"Are you my master?"

When the question was asked, the room fell silent.

Jolyne was the first to react, looking at the girl sitting on Medea's lap, and asked in surprise, "Medea Lily?"

With a high purple ponytail, neat bangs, and two strands of hair falling in front of her elven ears, the petite girl, only 149cm tall, responded demurely, "Servant, Caster. Medea. Um... nice to meet you!"

"But what does Lily mean? Why did Master add such a suffix?"

She hadn't realized that adding the suffix "Lily" to Medea meant a special version of Medea.

At that moment, she felt herself being pushed forward by a force from behind, and was caught and held in Jolyne's arms. Medea Lily, her cheeks puffed out, looked behind her and saw a woman with a somewhat distorted expression.

"Who...who are you?"

Looking at Medea's familiar elven ears and face, Lily asked, somewhat bewildered.

Noticing the other person looking at her with disgust, Medea Lily, determined to get along well with everyone, looked around the room and saw a purple-haired woman wearing an eye patch by the bed. She smiled slightly, but tried hard to suppress it.

Medea Lily turned around and snuggled closer to Jolyne, feeling as if she had been caught up in some trouble.

Jolyne helped her sit up, paused for a moment, and then introduced Medea Lily, who was in her arms, to her.

"...She was also Medea."

The so-called Medea Lily is actually the Medea of ​​the past, a student of Hecate, the princess of Colchis and the next queen, at the most beautiful moment of Medea's life, before being cursed by the goddess Aphrodite and experiencing the series of calamities that followed...

And she is already an adult.

Hmm... Medea Lily, who came to this era from that history, is an adult.

Although Medea Lily is nominally the Medea of ​​the past, in the Fate universe, she is a completely different being who has forged her own destiny instead of becoming "Medea" in the future.

Jolyne never expected that the ability to materialize and split wouldn't create a clone in Medea, but rather directly create Medea Lily!

What's this, a buy-one-get-one-free promotion day?

Jolyne glanced at Medusa, thankful that she hadn't given her the ability to materialize and split earlier. After all, Medusa had a Demon God form of the Avenger class, and if she appeared, she would be conspicuous enough even at night.

"Medea?"

Medea Lily looked at the person in front of her who looked somewhat similar to herself and indeed felt a connection; her own heroic spirit body had also split off from her.

With a "rip," Medea, quite agitated, crushed the beer can in her hand, spilling the remaining beer all over the bed.

Looking at her former self, Medea forced down her chaotic emotions, avoiding Medea Lily's gaze, and asked Jolyne, "Master, can that skill be canceled?"

Jolyne glanced at the status of the skill "Manifestation Split" on the panel, checked it, and replied, "No problem, it can be dispelled."

"Wait a minute, what are you talking about? What's going on here?!"

Medea Lily pouted, stretched out her arms, and asked, only to find that her newly acquainted Master said to her, "Bye-bye~"

"Hey...no...don't..."

Medea Lily's voice stopped abruptly, and she disappeared from the room, making Medea breathe a sigh of relief, a few drops of sweat sliding down her cheeks.

“This skill is indeed very interesting,” Medusa said, controlling her expression.

"...It is indeed quite unique."

Jolyne got up from the chair, walked to the bedside, took Medea's hand, and took out a tissue to help her dry the water stains.

Looking at Medea's cut hand, with a trickle of blood already seeping out, Jolyne asked curiously while channeling magic into her, "Is a Caster's body so fragile? How can a beer can cut you like that?"

Heroic Spirits are indeed a rather unique existence. Their bodies are made of magic, yet they can eat, bleed, and do naughty things, which is somewhat similar to the physical composition of the ghost stories in the main world.

Touched by Jolyne, Medea tried to pull her hand back, but couldn't. As a Caster, she was no match for the power of 21.

"I forgot to use magic to protect my palms, that's all."

Medea explained as she watched Jolyne channel her magic to repair her hand.

Medea doesn't know magic, but her skill in magic has reached the level of a magician. The moment Medea saw Medea Lily, she knew that it was her past self, yet also not her past self.

Her fate was different, and she would not embark on the perilous path that led to her future.

Disgust, aversion, plus a touch of envy and a sense of helplessness at not knowing what to say.

Medea withdrew her restored hand from Jolyne's grasp and stood up. She changed into a hooded robe, just as she had when she first appeared.

"I'm going out."

Medea turned into flower petals and disappeared from the spot, leaving only Jolyne and Medusa in the room.

"Medusa, please get up."

Jolyne said to her.

"What's wrong? You were so gentle with Medea. Is there really that big a difference between us?"

Medusa knelt by the bed, propping herself up on her arms as she leaned closer to Jolyne, their cheeks touching. Looking at her Master, who had just been gently wiping Medea's hands, she felt a strange urge to seduce him.

Joren lifted her off the bed, placed her on a chair, pulled the sheet over her head, and led her into the workshop.

"The sheets are wet, I just wanted to change them."

Jolyne explained to Medusa that he knew Medusa actually had a bit of a "cheating" streak, but he didn't expect her to make such a tempting move so soon after Medea left.

"This guy already has feelings for me?"

Jolyne thought to herself with some surprise, but the fact that she "developed feelings for him" was not surprising at all.

After all, there weren't many normal men in Greek mythology, and Jolyne's already high charm skyrocketed compared to those oddballs.

As Jolyne's five attributes—charm, physique, strength, agility, and intelligence—continue to improve, her already muscular physique is also changing. Her body now possesses both power and beauty and fluidity, making her both strong and elegant.

Jolyne threw the beer can into the workshop as well, and was thinking of going back to the workshop to see how much favorability they had on the non-human girl mutual aid manual, since Medusa could be considered a non-human girl to some extent.

Chapter 168 Cute C